Chad-Sudan peace deal commits to end border attacks

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DAKAR, Mar 14 (AFP): The presidents of Sudan and Chad have signed a non-aggression pact, vowing not to support rebel attacks against each other, many of which were launched from troubled Darfur.
The accord made late Thursday by Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir and Chad counterpart Idriss Deby is the sixth they have agreed in five years and came only after intense international pressure.
The arch rivals signed the accord and shook hands in the presence of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade.
Wade is hosting a summit of the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference in Dakar.
Beshir and Deby accuse each other of backing rebels seeking to overthrow their governments and there have been several clashes between their armies.
The text of the deal, released by Senegal's Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane, said "we solemnly engage to prohibit all activity by armed groups and to stop the use of our respective territories for the destabilisation of one or other of our states."
But the main innovation in the sixth accord is the creation of a contact group -- made up of Libya, Congo, Senegal, Gabon and Eritrea -- that will meet once a month to make sure both sides keep to the new pact.
Sudan's Foreign Minister Deng Alor Kuol played down the importance of the new deal saying it was "complementary to the previous accords which had no control mechanism."